CHAPTER TWO - Equilibra UK...responsible for our own futures and that our future did not lie in the...

Copyright Steve Gamble

CHAPTER TWO

There are many ways that we keep giving our power away to others. The Church,Medicine, Politicians and a variety of belief systems are some areas that come to mind. Inthe New Age forum we find that it is through various forms of divination,numerology/symbolism and healing modalities such as Reiki, Tera Mai and others. All ofwhich serve as prime examples of the ‘traps’ of the ego and the intellect which passthemselves off as something ‘spiritual’ and ‘enlightening’. We will explore how yet againwe are fooled into giving our power away and therefore take another positive step in ourjourney back towards our true inner self. We will start with divination and how it fits intothe illusory world we live in and then look at other aspects of the ‘trappings’ of theego/intellect and the external ego-consciousness later in the chapter.

DIVINATION – practice of attempting to acquire hidden knowledge andinsight into events – past, present and future – through the direct or indirectcontact of human intelligence with the supernatural. The practise was closelyrelated with religion among Hebrew, pagan and early Christian people.1

The reliance on the use of divination derives from the very fear inherent in Manhimself. Through ego and the need for power and control - which derive from fear - inpast times rulers such as kings, queens and emperors needed to know when it would bebeneficial to attack, invade, counter-attack etc. Most importantly of all, they needed toknow what the outcome of their intended action would be. Although it was not only forthe purpose of warfare that man sought advice from the supernatural, but also on issuessuch as love, money and health. Mankind is fearful because he has kept his search for thetruth external and has repeatedly connected with and drawn in energies external to him.Man has, therefore, been constantly fed by the ego/intellect fear based energy that wehave created both within us, and around us, in our consciousness and the consciousnessof the Earth. Our collective fears have resulted in an external search for power and thesupernatural means by which we can predetermine the outcome of our intendedconquests. From this very fear inherent in Man himself, dependence upon seers,soothsayers, priests, augurs and so forth gradually increased over time. Augurs or priestsperformed their divination in complicated ceremonies, called auguries, by reading omensor auspices. For example, at one time, no Roman would embark upon a majorundertaking unless the augurs (people who practised divination) decided the auspices(omens) were favourable. They exercised enormous power and were members of acollege that existed in Rome from its conception until the late 4th century AD. In theShang dynasty (China), shoulder blades of oxen and the bottom of shells of tortoises wereinscribed and heated. A message was derived from the pattern of cracks formed acrossthe inscription after heat was applied. The founder of the Zhou dynasty is said to haveestablished the traditional patterns of lines and added the judgements of theirsignificance. His son is said to have composed the commentaries. The collectivejudgements are known as Teuan and the commentaries as Tao. This strange search foranswers eventually resulted in the I Ching and Taoism, the foundation of modern dayChinese philosophy.


This is the same old story of looking outside ourselves again; believing almosteverything else holds the answers but us. Can we really believe the shoulder blades of anox and the shell of a tortoise can reveal our past and predict our future destiny? It wouldappear some of us do believe this is so.

Today, some of us continue to give our power away to a new hybrid of propheticmodalities we find in the New Age movement. Cartomancy has led to tarot cards andother special cards for predicting the future; necromancy has led to mediums andpsychics who communicate with the spirits of the dead. We now find adepts of astrology,tarot, psychic readings, runes and palmistry, fortune telling, mediums and the I Chingplying their trade in an illusory shopping mall derived from our fear, fuelled by ouropenness to give our power away due to our inability to develop and trust our ownintuition. If the augurs held so much power in Rome (and this is only one example ofwhat went on world-wide), can we not see that our fears and our external search foranswers have seeded, watered and fed throughout time the very imbalancedconsciousness from which we are now trying to free ourselves? If we lived without fearwe would realise that conflict was purposeless. If we listened to our intuition we wouldhave no need to consult seers, prophets, psychics, tarot cards and the like because wewould already know the answers. We would already know that we and we alone, wereresponsible for our own futures and that our future did not lie in the hands of tortoiseshell, astrology or any other form of divination.

This does not mean we cannot use any of these methods. If we do not take them tooseriously we can use them as a means of fun and to help develop our intuition. It is onlywhen we place our belief in somebody else’s interpretation of events that we are guilty ofgiving our power away, and this is something we must understand and learn from. Weshould stop giving our power away to such external influences, because they block ournatural flow of energy from in to out and inhibit our natural intuitive capabilities.

More recently, as the year 2000 approached, the attention of many people had beenupon the numerous false prophecies of doom, of Y2K take-over plots, extraterrestrialmanipulation and imminent catastrophic earth changes, offered by so-called seers andprophets. Unfortunately, by allowing these people to think for us we are in danger ofactually shifting our focus from the creative potential we all have for making positivechanges, towards fear-based scenarios. Scenarios which can profoundly and adverselyaffect the psyche and ultimately the way we live and behave. It is possible that scare-stories are deliberately manufactured at periods of great cosmic alignment in order tothrow people out of balance, making it harder to gain the true benefits available fromsynchronising internally and spiritually with the natural order of universal energies. Theresult - more fear and chaos was created by these external influences during what shouldbeen a re-harmonising and uplifting experience. Could this same ‘fear and chaos’scenario be happening today? We are after all, and have been for some time, witnessingthe same kind of dooms-day prophesies, ascensions, consciousness/dimension shifts,return of Planet X, and a whole range of other whacky ideas associated with theupcoming year 2012 and the alleged end of humanity as we know it. We will look at the2012 issue in Book Three. Time and again, experience tells us to listen to the inner voiceand go with love, with the natural flow of energy as and when it occurs, rather than toprepare in fear for what may never happen, or what is in danger of actually manifesting ifenough people focus their fears upon it. We can create through thought - thought being


energy. Whatever we experience inwardly we project outwardly through the process ofthought and the condition – balanced or imbalanced – of our soul/consciousness, and it ismanifested as a conscious energetic thought form.

This Truth Had To Be Kept Hidden

Throughout the years we have had to keep hidden the secrets of this inner journey -this inner knowledge and wisdom of how Nature and the Cosmos worked - for fear ofbeing found out and subsequently burned, stoned, drowned or murdered. And for why?For doing no more than working with Nature and Earth energies to assist us spirituallyand physically, helping others, Nature and Mother Earth too. The process of the religiousauthorities wiping out the ‘truth’ and those who deemed to hold it, or practise it, led tothis ‘knowledge’ being driven underground. It caused such knowledge to be confined toSecret Societies which passed on the information through initiation and the use ofsymbolism to teach initiates. Their understanding of the secrets and the way ofcommunicating it was kept alive by transferring and identifying this understanding in theform of paintings, buildings, monuments, occult inscriptions on grave stones and so forth.These people used trigonometry and mathematics to represent a symbolic and secretportrayal of their understanding, which was hidden in their designs. This would indicateto others that a person held the deeper knowledge and understanding of the inner journeyand how Nature truly worked.

We seem to have made the mistake of identifying with, and misinterpreting, Initiaticand religious symbology (see Book Two) by assuming they are magical or hold otherdivine powers. Yet all they have ever been, and remain, is a form of symbolicrepresentation of something more profound. They are meant to represent one’sunderstanding of the deeper workings of Nature and are used as a signature, a sign, aform of identification and communication between people who know of these deeperworkings, without the fear of being discovered. This identification process is still evidenttoday with the so-called secret handshake of the Masonic Lodge.

Could this be where we have been going wrong and could our fascination with these‘secret symbols’, mathematics and geometry be partially responsible for locking us intothis physical reality - the 0.001% of who and what we are, the biological part, matter? Isthis because their true meaning has never been openly revealed, or has been overlooked?Or possibly even misinterpreted, misunderstood or manipulated, intentionally orunintentionally, and therefore their true integrity and meaning essentially lost?

Man has been fascinated with numbers and geometry for millennia, no more so thanhe is now. What is this fascination, and from where does it originate? How has Manbecome so obsessed?

NUMEROLOGY/SYMBOLISM - the study of the occult significance of numbers/theuse of symbols to express things.

Numbers, we are told, are vibrational energy. We can use numerology to determineour ‘number’ or our ‘vibration’ by appointing numbers to the letters of our name,totalling them up until they become a single digit. We can do the same with our birthdates, such as 01/01/1959, which could be totalled as 1 + 1 + 19 + 59 = 80 and 8 + 0 = 8,


or 1 + 1 +1 + 9 + 5 + 9 = 26 and 2 +6 = 8. Here, we would be an eight vibration. Wecould then find out how this might be significant in relation to our personality, characterand so forth by checking in the appropriate book.

We appear to be fascinated by numbers and the number nine in particular, becauseeverywhere we look we find nine is represented somewhere in the physical aspect ofcreation. A very interesting point about the number nine is it always becomes itself. Itcannot be anything else. Multiply nine by anything and add up the digits and they willalways come back to nine. E.g. 9 x 9 = 81 and 8 + 1 = nine. Or take 9 x 219 = 1971 and1 + 9 + 7 + 1 = 18 and 1 + 8 = nine, and so on. The number nine will always come backto itself, just like a circle.

What is even more interesting about numbers is when we add together one througheight we get 36 and 3 + 6 = 9, nine again. We then add one through nine (1 + 2 + 3 + 4+5 +6 +7 +8 +9) together and we get 45 and 4 + 5 = 9, yet again nine. So it would appearthat nine is the culmination of all the other numbers one through eight.

In ancient times the cycle of the Earth around the Sun was a perfect 360 days. Theytherefore calculated the year as 360 days - 12 months of 30 days [and/or 36 weeks of 10days]. Until the seventh and eighth centuries BC, calendars from around the globerecorded the 360 day cycle but suddenly, we find in this period, that calendars beganadding days to both the length of the year and to the months to try and re-synchronise thecalendar with the solar and lunar cycles (detailed in the fascinating book Worlds InCollision by I Velikovsky). It has been postulated that the misalignment may have beendue to one or more cataclysmic events, such as the Earth passing through the tail of acomet which caused the path curve of the earth and/or its velocity to alter. This could bethe reason why the number nine (in numerology) in different cultures, has also beenassociated with natural disasters such as floods, and in the Bible it denotes Finality ofJudgement.

However, we do retain this ancient order in geometry because we still divide a circle(the ancient symbol for the Sun) into 360 segments called degrees. 360° numerologicallyis 3 + 6 + 0 = 9. Therefore, this is a nine number.

If we, therefore, apply this method of numerology to other geometric shapes we getinteresting results. The diamond is four lots of 90°, which equals 360°; nine again. Thesquare is the same, nine. The equilateral triangle is 60° + 60° + 60°, = 180° and 1 + 8 + 0= 9, another nine. If we look at the pentagram, we have five lots of 36° and this equals180°; another nine. The hexagram (Star of David) = 360°: the same story, a nine. Wecould go on and on.

The hexagram is particularly interesting in relation to the circle, the sun and the nine.In ancient times, the hexagram within the circle was used as a symbol of the zodiac cycle.The sun was seen as the centre of the circle which, due to the six-pointed star pattern, issurrounded by 12 divisions - the 12 houses of the zodiac. In Sumerian times, the zodiac


was based on the Earth’s precessional cycle of 25,920 years - again a nine. Theprecessional cycle is the length of time the Earth takes to ‘wobble’ around its axis. Justlike a spinning top which is tilted to one side, the Earth’s central axis is tilted towards oraway from the sun and takes that length of time for one revolution of this tilt to return toits former position. During this time, the constellations of the heavens will slowly movebackward across the sky to new positions according to the view from the Earth.

The Sumerians divided the precessional period into 12 equal parts of 2,160 (360-day)years, which is of course a nine number. The Sumerians used a base-sixty form ofmeasurement rather than base-ten - the decimal - to calculate time as it works perfectlywith the 360-day calendar. It is from the Sumerian influence that we divide our clocksinto 60 minutes and 60 seconds, which gives a very harmonious interplay betweenminutes, hours, the circle of 360, the solar and lunar cycles and the larger zodiac cycles.

We are more familiar, today, with the annual cycle of the zodiac which arises fromthe 12 divisions - the months - of the year used to calculate the horoscope, based upon theposition of the rapidly shifting constellations which move across the sky when viewedfrom the Earth.

More Symbolic Examples of the Nine

1080 is the average number of human breaths drawn per hour, another nine. 1080 isalso linked with the energy of The Mother, in her various forms as Diana etc., and thelunar energy. Interestingly the radius of the Moon is 1080 miles. Amazingly, the Moonhas always been associated with the colour of Silver, whose atomic weight is 108 - nineyet again!

The number 666 - the sum of the numbers 1-36 (nine) - to some people represents theDevil, the Mark of the Beast. The Book of Revelation relates this number to theApocalypse, again linking it to natural disasters. Could this be what is encoded in theBook of Revelation? Some numerological memory of the instability of the Earth and itsvulnerability to external forces, such as may have altered the ancient 360 day cycle in thepre-Judaic times? To other people, however, this number represents the energy of theFather, the Solar Energy. If we add 1080 and 666 together they equal 1746, which tosome represents the Grail, the Seed and the Vessel, the totality of creation. A ninenumber. The number 1746 is also deemed by some people to be related to the Earth’sElectromagnetic Grid.

Another notable nine number - 72 - is the average number of heartbeats per minute,the number of stones of the pyramid of the Freemasonic Great Seal of the AmericanDollar Bill. Cabbalists have various ways of writing the name of God in Hebrew, i.e. YodHeh Vav Heh. One of them consists of a triangle in which the name is written in blazingletters. The numerical value of Yod is ten, that of Heh five and that of Vav six. The sumof the numerical value of the letters in the triangle is seventy-two (72) and seventy-two isthe number of the Shem hamephorash (translated as the 'explicit name'), the seventy-twoangels that govern the universe.4 72, therefore, is the Cabbalistic number for the Namesor Powers of God. It is said in Cabbalistic tradition, for that very reason, to be the numberrepresented by the Star of David (hexagram), which is fundamentally connected to thegeometry and numerology of the cosmic cycles based upon nine.


186,282 is the maximum speed of light in miles per second, and represents the fastestspeed achievable in the physical universe. There are 4,320,000 years in the Mahayuga,the Hindu cosmic time cycle. Both nine numbers. We have a gestation period of ninemonths for a human birth, surely a clear indication of nine being symbolicallyrepresentative of the physical aspect of creation? Moreover, within our solar system thereare nine physical planets in orbit around their spiritual centre - the sun.

Taking the concept of geometry into three dimensions, there are only five regularsolids - known as the ‘Platonic solids’ - which are the only five regular three-dimensionalgeometric forms which can be fitted inside a sphere. These are:

Cube Total faces 6Angles per face 90x4 = 360Total angles of all faces 2160 (24x90) = nine

Icosahedron Total faces 20Angles per face 60x3 = 180Total angles of all faces 3600 (60x60) = nine

Octahedron Total faces 8Angles per face 60x3 = 180Total angles of all faces 1440 (24x60) = nine

Tetrahedron Total faces 4Angles per face 60x3 = 180Total angles of all faces 720 (12x60) = nine

Dodecahedron Total faces 12Angles per face 108x5 = 540Total angles of all faces 6480 (60x108) = nine

Can we now begin to understand Man’s intellectual fascination with geometricshapes and the number nine in particular? This obsession is represented in many of theways Man has attempted to explain existence itself and the way he has attempted to, andsucceeded, in controlling people. We also have the 144,000 Children of Israel on Mt.Zion mentioned in the Bible, which again adds up to nine - the 144,000, the ‘chosen’ fewwho will be ‘saved’. In the New Age movement we see the number nine appears in theform of symbols, the merkaba (star tetrahedron) and allegedly superior forms of beings,such as the Council of Nine and other channelled beings.

Bruce Cathie2 speculated that all the mathematical evidence so far indicates that themaximum number of elements (matter) to be found in the universe will be 144, nine.

If we go back to Egyptian times, this was the time when Man decided, through hisego, which of all the ‘Gods’ were to be the greatest. Thus Man created the Enneadrepresenting a group of nine of the most important Egyptian deities. Ennead is from theGreek word for nine and Enneads are also envisaged as being a judgement council, bothin mythology and historical inscriptions. This is the derivation of the so-called Council of


Nine as documented in the best-selling book ‘The Only Planet of Choice’. Is this not theold Illusion again, but wearing a different hat? Is this merely control and manipulation ofthe truth again? Is it no more than religion repeating itself?

Nine has always been the focus of Man himself and the ego consciousness whichdrives him, because today most people only choose to see physically and understandintellectually. After all, are we not taught from a very early age in most societies to beintellectual rather than spiritual? Therefore, what we observe intellectually all around usbecomes ‘all that is’ to our ego, and all around us is based upon the numbers of 1-9 - theend result of creation, matter, the physical and biological aspect.

Nine is made up of and contains all the other numbers, all the other vibrations, andwould appear to be represented in many geometrical shapes. As mentioned in part one, onan energy level of creation - the level of the Ahnu (ether/spirit) - Nature does not work inangles. Only in the physical world, where the ether/energy/spirit animates matter, do wesee these geometric shapes form. Geometric shapes are what Man sees and perceiveswith his intellect as being the source of creation, when they merely represent the endresult. Can we assume for simplicity that all the numbers one to nine are differentvibrations, as numerology would have us believe? Can we further assume that all thenumbers, or vibrations, which make up the nine, are, therefore, all the various vibrationsof the universe in a physical sense? That is, the inert part – the elements that make up thebiological/physical - the 0.001% of who and what everything is, as Bruce Cathiespeculated?

Accepting this, we can also accept that the physical and the intellect can go nofurther because once it becomes nine we know it will only keep on repeating itself. Thevibration of nine is the limit of physical creation; just as the speed of light - a nine - is thelimit of speed in the physical universe. Could this be, therefore, the number of Man in aphysical and intellectual sense? This is what the Book of Revelation tells us - that 666(nine) is the number of (a) man. Therefore the number of the Beast is the number of Man;that is, Man is confined by the number to being a beast - i.e. to expressing the baseraspects of the self. Nine is the limit of the ego, the limit of the intellect. Nine is avibrational prison as it can be nothing other than what it is, a vibration which keepsrepeating itself and, like the speed of light, cannot be physically or intellectuallytranscended. Nine is the male linear energy, the single one-way spinning spiral, akarepresentative of the external ego-consciousness, aka the Astral Reality.

Is this why we keep making the same mistakes over and over again? Because wehave become locked into our intellect, and we are becoming more like machines than theintegrated, loving and totally interconnected consciousness we truly are? Just like thegoldfish swimming around in continuous circles? Can we understand how Man hasbecome so fascinated by, and locked into, the number nine, and therefore mathematicsand geometric shapes? Man continues to use mathematics and geometry to express hisunderstanding of the deeper workings of Nature and the Cosmos and forgets, or is notallowed to remember, that they were and are merely a symbolic representation of hiddentruths.

So Is Nine All There Is As The Bible States?Or Is There A Missing Link That Is Being Kept From Us?


So what, if anything, feeds the nine (matter)? We know from open-minded physiciststhat ether (spirit) animates matter. If nine (including the numbers 9 down to 1) isrepresentative of the whole of the physical aspect of creation, something has to beresponsible for creating and animating it. For the answer to this we need to go back to thecircle and it is here we can discover Man’s ‘missing link’. We know the circle is a ninenumber and that nine can only ever be itself, so nine must be represented somewherewithin the circle. This leaves us with two possibilities for looking at how the circle ismade up. We can divide the circle by eight, which would give us eight segments of 45°degrees, preserving the nine. However, eight is a lower vibration than nine, so I believewe need to divide the circle by the number greater than nine - TEN - to give ten segmentsof 36°, 3+6=9. We now have ten aspects of nine making up the circle, which is still,numerically, a nine number. So the aspect of nine repeating itself is preserved: 10 x 9 =90, 9 + 0 = 9.

See symbolic representation below.This introduces us to another number, the number ten. If

we now add one through nine and finally add Ten, we have 45+ 10 = 55, 5 + 5 = 10! It appears that symbolically, nine cannotexist without Ten. Because we know that the ether (spirit) feedsmatter, then the ether feeds nine from within, from beyondnine. Numerically speaking, here we see that 10 comes from'above' nine and would seem to be the transcendent number of9. (Could this be where the axiom 'As Above So Below'originates from? Is this why we have had this simple inversionof truth expressed upon us because, once again, we have taken

this symbolic representation too literally?). From this example we need ten for the nine,and all it is composed of, to exist and become animated in the first place. It would appearten creates and animates all of the other vibrations, one to nine, the physical aspect ofcreation. Without ten we cannot have nine or anything below it.

Symbolically, ten, in a number of ancient cultures has been represented by thesymbol . Interestingly the symbolic representation for the Sun – fire/spirit - is also .If we ask the question ‘what feeds the nine?’ in relation to our physical solar system, wesee that the Sun feeds the nine planets with energy. The Sun is the 10th body at the centreof our solar system. The 10 feeds the 9. In some ancient cultures, 10 was held as thesacred number which should not be written down. It was therefore often written as twolots of 5. This indicates that far back in antiquity, our ancestors had a profoundunderstanding of the nature of the interconnected order of the Universe and the rolenumbers play in that cosmic order.

Due to our tendency towards the externalisation of perception, over the years wehave intellectualised that the symbol must therefore refer to the physical Sun that wesee with our physical eyes. So we have continued to look outside into this physical realityfor the answers to our spirituality. We know this is an error because we know thatspirit/ether resides within. Also, as physicists tell us, this energy comes from within andnot from without. The natural flow of Creation works from in to out and it is theether/spirit/fire/light which animates matter - from within. The symbol , the ten, thesun/fire/spirit/light, is the 99.999% of who and what we are. This symbolhas,


therefore, always been a symbolic representation of the inner Sun, our inner Sun, ourfire/light within, the inner flame, the Spirit, the energy source, which supports all life –the light that is all things.

It is no coincidence that both the ten and the sun/fire/spirit are symbolicallyrepresented as being one and the same. Numerologically speaking, the vibration of theinner Ten that creates all living things is the vibration of the Spirit, Light, the inner sunand the inner fire. It creates life, animates matter and symbolically animates all the othernumbers - vibrations of matter - so we can experience the physical reality.

Ten, symbolically being the Source of all there IS, the Oneness of Everything must,therefore, be represented in the physical aspect of creation in order for it to experienceitself. After all, what exists outside of us is merely a reflection of what lies within.Ten/spirit must be represented somewhere within physical reality, otherwise there wouldbe no physical reality at all. And it is. Symbolically, the male energy is a linear energy, a‘flatliner’ as I call it, and works in straight lines like this: — or like this: l, and whenviewed from its end this energy becomes a dot · , whereas the female energy is circular O,or three dimensionally a globe or perfectly round ball. On an energy level, balancebetween the male and female aspect results in the perfect vortex of energy; energyspinning both ways and exploding and imploding all at the same time. The female energy– the ‘globe or ball’ – is ‘pulled’ in towards its horizontal center by the male linearenergy, forming what we would recognise today as the ‘infinity symbol’ or the figure ofeight: 8. Hence, as we have discovered, we have the ancient symbol for Spirit, the Lightwe are and also the symbol for the vibration of TEN: which can also be shown as l 0.

This is the perfect balance we exist in as the creative Light Beings we are in a trueenergy sense, and this creative energy is also reflected in our physical reality ofseparation. Symbolically, we have the male linear energy represented by the erect penis,penetrating the circular female vaginal cavity to create physical life , just as we createlife in an energy form as the light beings we are. We only have to look at the Binary Codefor an excellent physical example of this ‘creation’: computer code using binarynumber system: Numbers and letters are translated into signals that a computer reads assequences of ones and zeros called binary digits bits. We know that computerprogrammes can create almost anything imaginable, and they are able to do this usingbinary code, the numbers 1 and 0 only, symbolically both the male and the female invarying sequences!

All we need to do is to stop looking up and out into the stars and the heavens for amoment and look down. Look down at our hands and what do we see Ten fingers . Ifwe look further down we see ten toes . Realise we are the TEN, we are the . Wehave always been the SPIRIT/TEN/LIGHT. We have just forgotten that’s all. Becausewe are now animating a physical body where the Soul and Spirit are separated and an egohas been created. We will have more in later chapters on this theme.

A symbolic example of what we have just been discussing would be a web site. If wewere to design a web site we could then log onto the Internet and view our finished work.We would be able to experience what we had created and if we were not happy with anyaspect of it we could return to what created it in the first place to make the requiredalterations. After all, we can make all the changes we want in our mind’s eye, but we stillneed to put them into effect physically. We could only do this if we remembered who andwhat had originally created the web site. It is the same process with life, with the


physical aspect of creation. The living light/spirit that animates us all has also created andanimated all of physical existence as we know it. Our physical world is the end result ofcreation, only we have forgotten, that’s all. Each and every time a baby is born into thisphysical reality with a soul reflecting the purity of the spiritual energy of creation, arethey born with the potential to make the necessary adjustments required to improve theEarth’s external ego-consciousness and environment (the very mess we humans areresponsible for creating)? Do we bring with us a physical reminder of what actuallycreates everything in the first place: Ten fingers and ten toes? Yet the irony is do we keepon forgetting? Are We the physical representation of the Source of Oneness, the physicalrepresentation of what created everything in the first place – the Virginal Spirit, theLiving Light, the Father?

However, the mind/ego/intellect combination has locked us firmly into the vibrationof nine (and all the vibrations that make up nine) and so we forget. Or are we not allowedto remember?

A classic example of this male-only energy denotingimbalance can be found when we examine Barcodes. We can seethe physical manifestation of the ‘male-only’ energy, representedby the single linear line here. Also, 666 is a nine number as weknow! For those of you who dowse, try dowsing over the barcodeand ask whether the energy is positive – good for you – or negative- bad for you. Then score a line across (perpendicular to) the linesof the barcode and re-dowse. Notice how the energy changes for the better – fromnegative to positive - by doing this one simple thing.

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It is interesting to note that in the Cabalistic system, the above principle of 10representing the non-physical is totally reversed. Ten is given as Malkuth (Malkout) - thenumber of the Earth plane, matter - and One is given as the Kether or God State. TheSun, our spiritual centre is attributed the number six. The possibility therefore exists thatsystems of philosophy and magic that derive from the Cabbalistic system will also lockone’s consciousness into the material/intellect/ego, whilst ‘apparently’ appearing to giveone access to so-called spiritual secrets. A great many of the New Age forms ofphilosophy are founded in the Cabbala, even though many followers don’t always realisethe aetiology of their beliefs, and therefore just what they are locking their consciousnessinto. Certain aspects of occultism were deliberately altered and inverted by the ‘teachers’of the ages, and the initiate must be ever wary of this in their journey, or risk being dupedand used by others with less than positive intent for them. Many high level occultistsusing the Cabbalistic system, who, having begun their path with the intent of findingspiritual enlightenment, have gone on to then use that knowledge for manipulation andcontrol of people and material things. Such high level initiates then became the ‘teachers’of others. And through this inversion of truth the cycle of locking into materialism andthe consciousness of control has been perpetuated down through the ages.

Through the externalisation and constant reference to our nine/matter aspect, to theexclusion of our transcending ten/spirit aspect, we are in danger of becoming totallycontrolled by the very consciousness we created in the first place. A consciousness,


which has, over time become exceedingly imbalanced. (We will explore this theme inmore detail in the next chapter).

And so we focus 99.999% of our attention on the 0.001% of who and what we are,the 144 elements, the physical and biological part, the nine of Man, the geometrical andmathematical part.

Why? Because we have been forced to look outside of ourselves for the answers andas a result we have allowed this external imbalanced consciousness to feed us and blockour natural flow of energy. We only need to find the ten/spirit within to know and becomethe ten. Then we can make changes to everything in our physical reality, our health andwell being, our futures, our environment and ultimately the environment of Mother Earth.WE, being animated by the Living Light are the driving force behind the physical realitynot the other way around.

I quote Deepak Chopra M.D. from his book Quantum Healing:

“Science used to hold the belief we were physical machines that have somehowlearned to think. Now it dawns that we are thoughts that have learned to createa physical machine.”

Just as the ten/fire/spirit is represented in the physical within the circle, it is fedfrom the ten (fire/spirit) within.

If we add the inner ten to our symbolic representation of creation, it would appearas is does above. Does this symbolic representation remind you of anything in particular?It resembles the Ahnu, the source of all life, as we touched upon in the opening chapter.This is because TEN (symbolically speaking) is the vibration of all life, the inner Sun, theinner flame, the source which resides in the space within. This ‘inner space’ creates feedsand animates all life itself. This is the Living Light, Spirit and energy we are; it is not thephysical aspect of ourselves, but the energy aspect.

It is from this energy structure that ALL geometric shapes evolve. For example, ifwe were to put a dot in the centre of all the outer circles, or where the outer circles jointhe main circle, and join selective dots together, it is possible to create almost anygeometric shape we desire.

The vibration of Ten, therefore, is recognised as transcending the nine in mysticalcircles. It is also representative of One. Not the one of the series one to nine (1-9), but thenumber of spiritual transcendence of the one to nine (1-9), i.e. unity with the Creator.

It is important to remember that Nature does not lie. Nature just IS. Only Manis capable of telling lies.


Therefore, the more one studies such occult philosophies and esoterica, as well as theart of propaganda, the more one sees the great power of direct inversion of truth upon thepsyche of Man. We see it in the Cabbala and Initiatic Science, and it is equally obvious, ifnot more so, when we look at Nature. If we look at a rainbow we see light refracted intothe seven colours. The top colour is red, then orange and so forth down to the bottom ofthe rainbow where we find what we are led to believe are the spiritual colours orvibrations. If we have been fortunate to observe a rainbow from an aeroplane we wouldsee the rainbow forms a circle and the spiritual colours are in the centre. Thiscomplements how Nature works, from within to without, with the higher vibrations closerto source and the lower vibrations forming further from source. This is a perfect analogyof the symbolism of the Ten transforming the vibrations 1-9. The perceived to be lowerphysical vibrations red, orange etc., are on the outside, not on the bottom or the inside.The vibrational source of spirituality (and therefore truth) always lies in the centre. Theeye of a storm shows us the same simple principle of how Nature works - balance,equilibrium, lies in the centre - chaos, destruction and imbalance on the outside. Now,what are we taught about our chakras and their colour sequence in the New Agemovement and the healing arts in particular? We are taught the spiritual colours lie at thetop of our heads, our crown chakra (the very opposite of a rainbow and how Natureworks), away from the centre of our being. And what are we doing by placing ourspiritual consciousness into the outer part of ourselves, the top of our head? We areplacing our spirituality in the control of our intellect. We are pointing and focusing ourspirituality up and out into the physical lower vibrational reality. In essence we are takingour spirituality away from its source, from its heart centre, the Ten, and excommunicatingit to a life in the wilderness, a life in the ego/intellect physical consciousness of reality -the chaotic part. The 0.001% of who and what we are, aka the vibrations of 1-9.

This current belief promoted throughout the New Age movement and the healing artsis another example of the inversion and reversal of truth we are constantly beingsubjected to. In the past when this inversion of truth took place, we did not have theadvantage of air travel, therefore when Man saw the rainbow he only saw it from theground, with the seven colours forming an arc. All that happened with the natural coloursequence of the rainbow, with red at the top and purple and violet at the bottom, was thatthis sequence was totally reversed by the law-makers/priests/spiritual teachers of thetime. This reversal of truth offered to the people as a spiritual and Initiatic teaching,became the 'accepted truth' thereafter, and this ‘truth’ is still used and promoted today inmany teachings. Thanks to air travel we now know the full significance of the colours ofthe rainbow and how we have been deceived yet again by the rulers and the lawmakers.We will discover more inversions of truth as we progress through the book.

Vibration of Nine – Channelled Information - the Council of Nine

The Talmud and Zohar (a treatise on the Cabbala) are also replete with references tothe relationship between nine and its transcendent ten. At times they seem in accordancewith the concept that 10 is the transcendent state of the nine, and at others it seems theopposite is implied. At times Yahweh would appear to be the Source Creator and atothers, the very opposite; purely the Lord of the material and the intellectual realms. Thisis also indicated by the designation of both seventy-two and nine as being the number of


the Divine Name. Could this basic confusion of contradictions and opposing dualities,inherent within the origin of so many Cabbala-derived religious, occult and New Ageconcepts, be one reason for the maintenance of the illusion which surrounds us all? Is thisa case of the Cabbalistic system attempting to superimpose and overemphasise thematerial and intellectual 1-9 system onto the true spiritual order of things?

The Council of Nine, a supposed Spiritual Hierarchy, will only transmit informationthrough one person. [This is only one example of what we can find written in many so-called ‘enlightening’ books today, the ‘chosen-person-syndrome’]. How convenient forthat person. “… We only come through Our Being (Phyllis). I am the only spokesmanfor the Nine and I do not speak through any other”.5 Does this not sound as though it iscoming straight from the ego/intellect consciousness? Surely only ego can assumeinformation is for the privilege of the chosen few. Reinforcing what we have been toldfor many years through religions - that we are weak, we are not worthy, and only thechosen few are worthy and we must give our power away to these people in order to besaved? Is this not the way it has been for thousands of years? Is this the same scenariorepeating itself within the New Age movement with the plethora of so-called ‘channelled’information coming through allegedly ‘higher evolved’ beings who are here to help saveus from our mistakes? Beings who are the ‘supposed’ saviours of humanity, such as theCouncil of Nine? We are encouraged to believe this information will transform us andredeem us; information which in fact is remarkably and disturbingly similar in style andcontent to those beliefs and controls promulgated throughout religion over the last fewthousand years or so.

Staying with this example, it is also remarkable that the entity who has authorityamongst the Council of Nine is a male entity who calls himself Tom. Tom is actually apseudonym for the entity Atum - the Creator-god of ancient Egypt. Atum is alsosupposed to be the head of the Ennead. The nine Gods of the Ennead historically camefrom the Primordial Waters; the God Nun and the Goddess Naunet (Nanet), the male andfemale aspect denoting balance. Although generally, only the male God Nun is referredto. These two deities were part of the Ogdoad, eight deities, four Gods and fourGoddesses, again representing balance of the male and female energies. The male Godswere depicted as having the head of a frog and the female Goddesses the head of a snake.Is this why certain religions have demonised the snake, the serpent as being evil andtherefore capable of tempting us into 'devilish' ways? Is this purely because thesnake/serpent represented the female energy, an integral part of our very balancedexistence? Is this why so much reference to the female influence in the importance of thehistory of life has been washed over and left out of many religious texts? Because in themain they have been written by men under the auspices and direction of the rulers of thetime? Could this be another example of the Cabbalistic inversion of making the materialand intellectual plane superimpose itself upon the archetypal symbol of the transcendentspiritual One Source (Ten)? Therefore causing the followers of the Nine to lock into thematerial and intellectual plane (imbalance), rather than the true divine spirit (balance)?

Another interesting aspect of the Council of Nine is that they all are male, or at leastno female goddess such as Isis or Nut have been ‘channelled’ by the ‘receivers’. This alsogives an indication of the quasi-religious derivation of the Council - many religions have,since their inception, demonised, or entirely removed, the feminine from the state ofGodhead, as was natural in the early ‘pagan’ religious philosophies understood in ancient


Egypt. In many religions the early priests took Egyptian and Mesopotamian religiousideas based upon their mother/father/son/daughter god polytheism and wove them into apurely patriarchal (monotheistic) religion based upon fear, with which the priesthoodcontrolled their nations (populous) as the spokespeople for their God. After all, thefemale energy would be, for the male ego energy, an obstacle to obtaining only thatwhich the male energy knows and perceives as being the answer – dominance and controlover all that it sees. The male energy without the balance of the female energy isunbalanced and inflexible. It is the intellect, the ego, the will and the desire to continue todrive forward without reason to the destruction and death of all else - the chaotic part ofthe storm.

This is why balance is important and I believe references relating to the importanceof the female/Goddess energy in this balanced structure, have been intentionallyobliterated by the ego driven consciousness of men. This is so prevalent today in manyreligions, the Occult, the Cabbala, Masonic Science, and it has now also found its way,and seeded this very same ego/physical/male consciousness, into the New AgeMovement and the Healing Arts. After all, many of the books you pick up these days onhealing, transformation, channelling etc., contain within them enough evidence ofCabalistic, Masonic and other quasi-religious undertones and influences. All hiding anunderlying control and manipulation programme to invert truth and gain control of ourspirituality. Is the same thing happening via the Council of Nine? A new religion spunfrom ancient mythology, placing power over others into the hands of those who wouldclaim to be ‘God’s’ mouthpieces and therefore humanity’s saviour-guides? God's ET's(Ego Transceivers perhaps)?

According to Tom (Atum), the “Council of Nine are identified (in the Hebraictradition) as the Elohim”. There are many explanations of who and what the Elohimwere, depending upon what you read. That Elohim and Adam are coded symbolic wordscreated by the Elohim through the sacred language of the Qabala, is one. Elohim is ageneral term used occasionally in the Old Testament for any divine being, but morefrequently in reference to the God of the Israelites. Plural of the Hebrew Eloah (“God”),it has been explained as signifying greatness and majesty. The Elohim are also 'known' asthe angelic hierarchy and the creators of Adam and Gaia and so much more to boot. Tomgoes on to say '”Nine is complete. Everything is nine. Nine is a complete number, it iswhole. When you go over nine it cancels…”

After what we have just been discussing about numbers and their respectivevibrations, is this statement not indicative of somebody deliberately attempting to lock usfurther into the physical reality, the nine of Man, the ego/intellect consciousness, anddeny us spiritual freedom?

Tom goes on “… and the principle of the Nine is infinite intelligence and what weare trying to bring to this planet is this type of intelligence.” Nine again. Where is Ten,the Light and the Unconditional Love? When Tom was asked about whether we couldhave avoided the Gulf War, the Council of Nine, and not forgetting the alleged 'twenty-four Galactic civilisations' too, told us after great debate and consideration, “…this wasnot possible for it to be a choice on a human level”. Apparently the 'as above so below'(another inversion of the truth as it should be 'as within so without') prevailed “…forthose in the spheres are in battlement” [the Gods at war again?] and those of the “spirit,working for the evolution of planet Earth, have taken them [the butchered casualties of a


futile war] into their bosom and have taken them away in forwardness, so there is not tobe a recycling of those who have undergone transitions”. Do you find this statementsomewhat disturbing? Where is free will here? What are they doing to human souls andwhy do they not want them to be 'recycled'? Surely we have a choice in this matter? Dothey need the emotion of fear caused by war to achieve whatever it is they are trying toachieve?

I am reminded of ancient writings, appropriated by some people to a character called‘Jesus’ when he allegedly spoke of the Archons (physical law makers and astral thoughtforms – full explanation Book Two). The writings referred to the Archons as being ‘thethievers of souls' – “they who sit there as toll collectors. Not only do they demand toll,but they also take away souls by theft”6. And further – “the Archons have garments thatare given to them for a time, which do not abide. As for you however, since you are thesons of truth it is not with these temporary garments that you will clothe yourself “7 Howapt could these words now be? Are the 'Nine' merely capturing human souls so theycannot come back and upset their plans? Tom's message sounds so clinical in its portrayalthat this disturbing question could indeed hold some symbolic form of truth. We will lookat what can happen to the human soul when it leaves the physical body in great detail inBook Two, and then some of you may want to come back to this statement from Tom andthe Council Of Nine.

We are relieved of our sins and given absolution yet again for our atrocities becausethe Council of Nine or some spiritual hierarchy decrees it has to be this way to save manand illuminate the souls of all those people needlessly butchered in an unnecessary war.Are we to accept this un-loving and unbalanced act of killing human beings as the willand direction of the E. T. Gods? Gods, we are told, who are wholly spiritual and full oflove and who have come here to help us save ourselves because we are not capable onour own. Does this scenario sound familiar to you? The Council of Nine will be telling usnext that they (the butchered ones that is), actually chose this to happen to them so theycould become enlightened and thus enlighten the rest of the human race!

However, if these 'Souls' cannot be 'recycled' after 'transition' and are notallowed to return, how can they enlighten us and how can we possibly ever knowwhat really happened to them? And is there some truth in this or are we beingdeceived yet again through what is obviously a rehash and modernising of some oldreligious hierarchy here to save us all over again?

What else does Tom, this extraterrestrial God, have to say? Tom talks about theHoovids and this spiritual hierarchy of Gods (The Council of Nine) has a warning for usall. 'We would have one warning to people who are working in higher consciousness, tobe very cautious about your attitudes towards the Hoovids'. Does this sound like a threat?Remember there are only two emotions, love which is balanced and fear which is not.Threats fit into the fear category. What and who are the Hoovids? Back to Tom. 'TheHoovids come from another planet, the planet Hoova, a warrior-like planet'. Not from aplanet of love and peace then Tom? And we know what Hoovas do, they suck things indon’t they? Are we just being ‘sucked’ into a pure fantasy of the external ego-consciousness?

And who are the Hoovids according to Tom? 'They are the Israelites'. Soundfamiliar? Tom goes on to say ' We ask you why should not the Hoovids have their way?'This message sounds so like Man, so like the bully who wants his way, not a god or E.T.


of love and balance who supposedly created everything. Then I am forgetting, Manhimself created these so-called gods to wipe out references to the importance of thefemale energy found in many early historical texts and writings. Man went on to re-write'history' in parts in order that he (the ego/intellect/male consciousness) could control themasses through fear and retribution, with the promise of redemption and salvation forthose who carried out his wishes. And in so doing he inflated and fed his own self-opinionated importance - his ego - through people’s fears, by dominating and controllingthem. Is this what we are witnessing in the New Age Movement and the Healing Arts, thesame seed being sown? It looks like the Council of Nine and their 'spiritual message',however they may perceive themselves, are both derived from the imbalancedintellect/ego consciousness of Man himself. [As my journey progressed I began to realisethat ALL channelled information of this nature was inconsistent and contradictory, andcame from the one same place – the astral reality. I just wasn’t aware, at this stage, of thehow, or importantly, the why?]

The simple and very important truth to grasp from all of this information isthat nobody is here to save us - the Church, the Council of Nine or otherwise. Wecan, however, save ourselves! We do not need any help from the figment of theimbalanced ego consciousness and those who choose to promote it. If we are all from theone source and we contain all the information of the universe within us, how can anyinformation ‘belong’ to one individual? It cannot and it does not. Information is availableto us all and is for sharing, openly and lovingly. We just need to remember how to accessit and we will then be able to break through and beyond the restrictions posed by thisego/intellectually-compromised consciousness we have created over time. We will thenrealise that each and every one of us is our own saviour.

Reiki’s Cho Ku Rei Symbol and Tera Mai™ Zonar Symbol

Despite appearances to the contrary, and the so-called enlightening knowledge andlove-energy contained within it, can we see that much of what resides in the New Agemovement and the healing arts is based on this external imbalanced ego/intellectconsciousness? After all, most of it is externalised and intellectualised, based on thephysical vibration of nine, the Cabbala, geometric shapes such as the merkaba, and theuse of unbalanced symbols, which appear to form the very foundation and attunementmethods we find in modalities such as Reiki and Tera Mai.

We looked at the single Cho Ku Rei in Chapter One. However, some ReikiPractitioners use both hands to ‘draw’ this symbol, but opposite ways at the same time,thus creating what they believe to be a balanced symbol. By carrying out this procedurewe would only succeed in creating an unbalanced energy in one hand, and an unbalancedenergy in the other hand. As we are taught to keep our hands separate when working onthe body we are only intensifying the imbalance and further limiting the energies wecould be working with. The only way to circumvent this happening would be to hold onehand over the other, so both symbols overlaid one another, which would then create the‘double’ Reiki symbol.


On the left is a double Cho Ku Rei using this very sameprocess. On the right is the same double symbol without the angular lines. The symbol onthe right tells its own story. Three dimensionally it looks like a bowl, within a bowl,within a bowl. If this is not immediately apparent take your time. It is like looking atthree-dimensional drawings in a way. This symbol is an ancient symbolic representationof the Outerworld reflected within. With the lines, or antennae (aerial), which aredesigned to attract (just like an aerial) outside (outer) man-made astral-type energies intoour own energy fields, can we understand why only one half of this symbol has beenpassed down to Reiki initiates? As Creation works from within to without and not theother way around, this will only help to disrupt and ultimately weaken our energy fields,making it more difficult to determine what is the truth and what is not. Not to mention theimpact this reverse flow of energy and its attachments could have upon our health andwell being, especially our Assemblage Point (Sacred Heart). We will cover theimportance of the Assemblage Point in the next chapter.

I’ll leave it up to the readers’ intuition to feel or sense the difference between theReiki symbol/s and the Ahnu (below) and the effect they may have upon your energyfields, good or bad. That way you can come to your own conclusions and it will be yourown truth.

If we now look at the Zonar symbol which is used in Tera Mai™ and in some forms of'advanced' Reiki, we can see the same picture forming.

The figure to the left is the Zonarsymbol. The figure to the right is where thissymbol comes from. In Initiatic science, theQabala, Z is the number 2. This is where 2comes from. Two is the number of initiation,the most profound and the most dangerous.Everything pertaining to two is difficult. To theinitiate it represents order, harmony and


construction. To the unwise it is the number of opposition and destruction. The Z (or 2) ismerely symbolic and one has to understand its full meaning in order to use it for order,harmony and construction. The Z is only part of the answer. The Z is a symbolicrepresentation of the principles of balance. In this case Fire and Water, the symbolicsource of all existence, the elements of creation. Therefore, the Z is a symbolicrepresentation of this principle of balance between Fire and Water thus - see below left.

FIRE

WATER

BALANCED ZONAR - UNBALANCED

The two triangles represent vortices of energy coming together in balance tocreate life – the balance between implosion and explosion. So we can see that the Zonarsymbol is incomplete and therefore unbalanced in its representation. See figure above tothe right which shows (dotted line) what has been omitted from this symbol. Placing aninfinity symbol on this incomplete and unbalanced symbol means literally infiniteimbalance - infinite opposition and destruction. Using this symbol, in my opinion, willonly serve to bring imbalance into ones energy fields in a similar way using the Reikisymbol will. Remember these are only symbolic representations of hidden knowledge.The 2 or Z also represents the Second Tarot card, the High Priestess in front of the twopillars, between which is a veil which conceals the entrance and forbids access to thetemple. The High Priestess is holding an open book and two keys. This symbology meanswe have to study and learn in order to obtain the keys that will enable us to lift the veiland have access to the mysteries. The book is symbolic of two and so are the two keyswhich represent the two aspects needed to create the balance required to obtainknowledge. 2 or Z also represents the entrance to the sanctuary and to enter we needbalance (the two principles), which is represented by the symbol above left. The Z ispurely symbolic therefore of the need for balance in order to gain access to the mysteriesof life. It does not represent balance itself; it represents opposition and destructionbecause in itself it is unbalanced. To the initiate, however, who knows the hiddenmeaning of the 2 and the Z - i.e. what is required to achieve balance - then it representsorder, harmony and construction.

This does not mean we should refrain from using symbols at all, only whenwe are channelling energy for healing. Providing a symbol is balanced and receivesits energy from within itself and does not attract energy from the pea soup of theastral realms, then symbols can be useful in certain circumstances.


It may be prudent at this stage to look at Reiki from a more historical perspective,rather than from any new-age or ‘channelled’ perspective.

The True Origins of Reiki

Thankfully, an original Japanese book on Reiki and its correct origins has beentranslated and published in English and provides us with some clarity and historicalbalance on this method of spiritual transgression developed by Mikao Usui that hashitherto been denied us by Western manipulation and illusory shenanigans. Let uscompare the facts and the fiction. I quote from the book:

‘We know that myth has played a big role in human history. However, when wetalk about history as the truth, we should tell the facts as correctly as possible. If a newfact is found, we need to correct the wrong story. Some people deny the truth because itis inconvenient for them but Usui-sensei would not want such a dishonest behaviour. Inthe following I will state the wrong Reiki history and the truth.’8

Fiction: Usui was a Professor of a university in Kyoto, or a Dean and even aPresident or Doctor.

o Truth: Mikao Usui did not graduate from any university. Neither did he havea doctor’s degree.

Fiction: Usui-sensei was a priest of Christianity or a professor of divinity.o Truth: He experienced various professions. He was engaged in missionary

work of a religion related to Shinto, but he was not a Christian at all. Mt.Kurama is a holy place for Buddhists. A Christian would not do fasting at Mt.Kurama, and would not enter a ZEN temple.9 He studied and practised Zen forthree years.10

Fiction: Usui-sensei searched for a healing method for a long period andsearched the mystery of life/soul and how to use universal energy.

o Truth: Usui-sensei said that healing power was given by accident duringfasting and he did not know the true essence of Reiki and it is written in the“Reiki Ryoho Hikkei” that he did not search for the energy to obtain healingability.

Fiction: Usui-sensei saw Reiki symbols during fasting. A bright light cameinto the centre of his head, rainbow colours appeared and then they changedinto a huge white light, and golden lightening symbols in Sanskrit appeared.

o Truth: Usui’s experience is written in the “Reiki Ryoho no Shiori (ReikiRyoho handbook)”, and it does not say anything at all about this.36 Usui wrote‘I have a hard time explaining exactly. I realise that I’ve received the ability ofhealing accidentally when I felt the air in mysterious way during fasting…Iwas not taught this method by anybody nor studying to get intuitive power.’53

Usui-sensei did not even use symbols himself.11 He developed the ‘symbols’later to help his students to focus.12

Fiction: Chujiro Hayashi succeeded the Usui Ryoho Gakkai as the 2nd grandmaster. After Hayashi passed away, Hawayo Takata succeeded the Gakkai tobe the third grand master.


o Truth: Hayashi and Takata were great grand masters of Reiki. However, therewas no fact that Usui-sensei determined Hayashi as his successor. Hayashiwas not the 2nd president of the Gakkai. Takata was not either.9

What has been established is that Usui had approximately 2000 students, andUsui-sensei had given Shinpi-den to 16 masters. Four have been clarified:

1. Juzaburo Ushida 1865-1935Rear Admiral of Japan NavyThe 2nd president of Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai

2. Kan’ichi Taketomi 1878-1960Rear Admiral of Japan NavyThe 3rd president of the Gakkai

3. Yoshiharu Watanabe ????-1960School TeacherThe 4th president of the Gakkai

4. Chujiro Hayashi 1879-1940Captain of Japan NavyThe 1st president of Hayashi Reiki Kenkyu-kai

And on and on we could go. Mikao Usui merely referred to universal energy, thelife force energy inside humans – the pure light that we are – as Reiki. Reiki was a labelmeaning connection with the light or universal energy within. Usui-sensei taught, ‘Theuniverse is me, and I am the universe. The universe exists in me, and I exist in theuniverse. Light exists in me, and I exist in the light.’13 He also taught that Reiki was amethod based on intuitive power among the universe14 and this is carried on today intraditional Japanese Reiki where it is taught that the first spiritual awakening is anintellectual awakening with one’s consciousness. In this stage ‘it is understood in the


head and not a true awakening.’ A true awakening is an intuitive understanding byShinga (Soul/Higher Self) and to complete the unity with truth.16

We can understand from the above that in the true origins of Reiki, before theWestern ego got hold of it, it was all about finding the light, the universal energy withinus. It was about the ‘inner journey’ and developing the intuitive side so we could bettercommunicate with the light or universal energy which Usui called Reiki. Usui-senseideveloped Hatsurei-ho to improve the connection with the inner light, or internal Reikienergy.17 Additionally, from the above lineage, we can see that the original Reikideveloped by Usui-sensei stayed in Japan and a different form of Reiki was exported intothe Western world.

Also Usui-sensei did not use symbols, nor was he ‘given’ symbols in some divineencounter. He developed what have become known as symbols later on, as a tool to helpmembers of the Japanese Navy and his students focus on the inner journey, and inconjunction with the mantras help them to connect with the light (Reiki) within. TheJapanese Navy was one of the main avenues through which Reiki expanded in the earlyyears.18 Usui-sensei created the distant healing system using the resonance featurebetween the symbol and Kotodama (mantra) energy and said: ‘Human being has a naturalgift to resonate with universe if he aims it in his mind. I want you to grow enough to beable to do distant healing without symbol and Kotodama (mantra) that I taught.’19

Today in traditional Japanese Reiki teachings, symbols (focusing aids) are taughtin the same context as ‘supporting wheels of a bicycle.’20 In other words, when a personhas grown enough spiritually and can rely on their inner light they should stop using thesymbols/focusing aids, just as a child takes the stabilisers off their bike when it hasenough confidence in its own ability to ride it without falling off. It is also taught thatsymbols should be used as a tool and one should not misunderstand their function, andthat searching for additional symbols or regarding symbols as a holy thing ismeaningless.20

In Gendai Reiki-ho, students learn the symbols and are taught to aim at ‘NOSYMBOL USE’ status. It further teaches that you can replace the 3rd symbol with theimage of the Sun and the 4th symbol with the image of White Light.21 Additionally, it istaught ‘You must not mislead yourself into believing that the symbols themselveshave any power and rely upon them. Otherwise you are worshipping only theimages and not the reality…you have to overcome this limitation eventually, becauseit is like a hurdle.’22 Students are encouraged to become a light symbol or a symbolof the light.23

It is also taught that it is important in ‘healing’ to apply one’s hands without anycontrol of the mind and that if you try to make useless effort to concentrate, other kindsof power may be mixed in. If we are to receive the higher dimension of universal energywe need to relax and open our minds and trust the universe.24 Here we have confirmationin traditional Japanese Reiki of the importance of ‘Allowing’ in healing, taking the mindout of the equation, and that if we use the mind, aka ego, then other lower energies maycome into the healing equation. So it is a fallacy that people involved in Reiki cannotattract negative energies. If the intellect comes in, in any shape or form, so too donegative energies.

Like mentioned in Chapter One, healing is all about ALLOWING. Allowingenergies higher than the intellect to get on with the job at hand.


It would appear that some Western Reiki Masters have offended the keepers oftraditional Reiki in Japan, who feel there is a limit to Western Reiki.25 This I can readilyunderstand. In original Usui Reiki Ryoho, after a student receives the ‘first level’, thestudent has to practise for many years and must show increased spiritual ability to theirsensei before the second level is even considered and offered them.26 Compare this withthe ‘get-rich-and-become-enlightened-overnight-with-Me-guru’ approach of manyWestern Reiki Masters who offer ‘Mastership over Spirituality’ in a weekend! Andcompare this also to those who now believe they are aliens – but as we now know, onlyalien to the light and truth. (See Chapter Four for more).

It is only when we connect with the light within that we can possibly hope toconnect with the reflected light without. For if we cannot recognise what it is we arelooking for, we will never find it outside of ourselves in the convoluted miss-mash ofimbalanced energies we have created over time. As I mentioned in Chapter One, wecannot camp at the base of a mountain and expect to wake up at the top the next day.Sadly, too many people do believe they can become holders of the truth over night, or byreading some book or other. The journey to the top of the mountain is the journeyinwards towards the light that we are and the light that is all things. There is only onetruth – the light – and as we dig through the darkness of the illusion we begin to find thisone same truth behind many disguises today.

So we can see that the truth never varies and is quite simple. It is all about findingthe light within, the convergence of the soul through its inner journey towards the lightthat we are. It is about allowing. Nothing complicated at all. We can see, just as thealleged teachings of the character referred to as Jesus have been altered and manipulatedbeyond recognition over time, so too have the origins of Reiki, as have the origins ofFreemasonry and Initiatic science and many other teachings too. The ego and the intellecthave merely externalised the truth of these methods and made it complex and difficult toachieve by placing divinity beyond the capability of humans. When in truth, we are allimmortal humans and we are all capable of achieving Christ consciousness in thephysical body through the inner journey, the baptism of the soul with the inner light– the resurrection. Only THEY do not want us to know this, for in realising this simpletruth means we no longer buy into the illusion and can no longer be controlled. In effect,our NEED for THEM disappears and with it so does their power and the illusion and allits heinous thought forms, for without our imbalanced energy fields to keep them alive,they cannot survive. This is simplicity in itself. Harmony restored, consciousnessbalanced both in and out; Paradise or Heaven in the physical reality, the perfect reflectionof the light and love we are.

Other Examples of Manipulated Truths, and Myths

Many Reiki practitioners and Reiki Masters are now working without symbolsand are finding profound improvements, as they are accessing their own inner connectionto the Source rather than bringing in external energies of a lower vibration which areoften imbalanced. Unfortunately in the healing arts there are a multitude of modalitiesand gurus locked into the physical vibration of ego consciousness that would have usbelieve the only way forward is to use symbols and modalities corresponding to these


lower vibrations (1-9). Shapes such as the Platonic Solids or the Merkaba are a goodexample of this duplicity. Let us examine a few examples of this.

Over the years when Man has read or discovered something he feels is importantto humanity or to his own ego, he has written about it. However, he will also embellishthe information slightly, because he will want to put a little of his own stamp upon it.Thus the information alters slightly depending on the individual interpretation of it andthe message the person wants to put across. This goes on over many years with the nextperson adding a little of his or her own interpretation and before long we have theChinese Whisper Syndrome. I remember this from school. One person at the front of theclass would be given a short transcript and they would then have to whisper it to the nextperson and that person would then whisper it to the next person and so on until the lastperson heard the story. We would then compare the original story with the story given bythe last person to hear it. Invariably the stories were always slightly different and in somecases were very different. This is what has happened to a lot of the information floodingNew Age and spiritual movements at the moment. Original teachings and their symbolicmeanings have become almost totally obscured today by intellectual, imaginary andliteral interpretations of symbolism. As well as deliberate alterations and rewritings bythe lawmakers/church of the time with the additions and extensions to these manipulatedtruths by individual people in many walks of life wishing to stamp their ownego/imagination and self-importance on these matters. A merkaba is a prime example ofthis.

Allow me to put forward a typical description of what we are supposed to believethe Merkaba actually is: ‘Merkaba is the spiritualised auric field merging with the higherself bringing the ability to dematerialise or teleport the physical body. This process isused by advanced beings, Ascended Masters etc., and can only be activated by a fullyopen chakra’.

Merkaba comes from merkava which is mentioned in the Cabbala - the Jewishversion - meaning God’s throne, the chariot (merkava) beheld by Ezekiel. A Merkaba(merkava) was a physical construction used for transportation, no more and no less.Something upon which we used to carry the 'Gods' (our Kings and Queens, Pharaohs,Emperors etc.) around in the past. Something, which was originally a physicalconsctruction, has now been transformed into a star tetrahedral spiritualised part of ourenergy fields, supposedly enabling us to dematerialise or teleport and travel like theAscended Masters. Amongst other fantastic claims.

The Cabbala (and occult sciences) would also appear to form the foundation ofmodern Freemasonry - Masonic science. Interestingly, the Council of Nine can allegedly(Prince & Picknett) be traced back to the highest echelons of Freemasonry and occultsciences. This is a clear indication of the Cabbala and its predilection towards theinversion of truth infiltrating and seeding its embryo in the New Age movement and theHealing Arts! Is it also purely a coincidence that Israel has developed a new space-agemilitary tank called a merkava?

Maybe this false truth about the merkaba currently being promoted andencouraged throughout the New Age Movement can be more clearly identified as suchwhen we look at New Age 'prophecies' or ‘predictions’ before up-and-coming so-calledspiritual or doomsday events. An excellent example being what was predicted before theMay 2000 Planetary Alignment. We were led to believe, by many prophets, seers, gurus


and the like, that during the three-day period, 3rd to 5th May 2000 inclusive (the height ofthe planetary alignment) the Earth's magnetic and biophysical fields would disappear.Therefore, in order that we avoid the consequence of 'losing' our biophysical andmagnetic fields too, along with the memory of who and what we are - plus the ludicrouspossibility of being sucked out into space somewhere - we were encouraged by these'prophets of doom' to 'build' the Merkaba. An energy body based upon the startetrahedron that we are encouraged to build through visualisation techniques around ourphysical body to protect us.

However, by visually building a Star Tetrahedron (merkaba) and focusing uponsomething that is firmly rooted in the vibration of nine - the physical and the unbalancedego/intellect consciousness - we are not allowing any important shift in consciousness toresonate within us. By building something from intellect and something which does notexist anywhere within or around our natural energy fields - therefore something alien tous in energy form - we are merely blocking out all forms of higher consciousness andcausing detrimental changes to our energy fields. As such, are we merely culpable ofallowing our spirituality to become hi-jacked by the perpetrators of these fear-basedprophecies? Is this similar in some ways to the way the Council of Nine are justifyingWar and Murder, by hi-jacking our spirituality, through our consciousness, into believingthese acts of attrition are necessary for us to become 'enlightened'? Is this any different tothe alleged reference covered earlier to the Archons being thievers of souls? Is this whatall this means? That there are people not of the truth who will try to strip us of our souls,our spirituality, and importantly, our love and compassion towards all living things, bylocking us into the physical and astral reality through the use of imbalanced symbols andgeometric shapes?

Let us remind ourselves that basic geometric shapes belong in the physical reality,they are merely the physical representation, the 0.001% of who and what we are - matter,the biological part. They are of the vibration of one to nine and using these geometricshapes, such as the star tetrahedron/merkaba, amongst others, will only serve to keep uslocked into this physical reality, the illusory concept of creation. This will stop us fromrealising we are spirit - the number ten - and stop us from experiencing the 99.999% ofwho and what we truly are and therefore preventing us from realising the mistakes we arecontinually making. Man has continually made the mistake of believing these symbolicrepresentations, once used to teach initiates of more profound truths, are actually a higherreality than he is. He has concentrated on what has been going on outside himself for solong now that he is suffering from amnesia. Locked into this physical aspect of creation -the illusion - by focusing upon it and believing it holds all the answers, when really, it is aprojection of our thoughts, the end result of creation, the physicalmachine created by thought.

Man has always used mathematics and geometry to express hisunderstanding of Nature and the Cosmos. In ancient Tibet, TibetanArchitects concealed their understanding of science in the form ofancient structures called stupas. A square represented the Earth, a circlewater, the triangle (pyramid) fire, and so forth. These were, and still are,merely symbolic representations, in which respect they hold no othersignificance whatsoever, magical or esoteric. Are they even a correctrepresentation? As long as man sees with his intellect and physical eyes


only, all he will see is the physical-ego aspect of creation. He will never see beyond itand he will never see what is feeding it. This is why Man is obsessed with geometricshapes, the physical representation of existence is all he perceives and so assumesthrough his intellect that this is all there is to see. Hence Man has locked himself into thevibration of nine, the physical/intellectual, and now chemically toxic and geneticallymodified, aspect of reality.

Most of what exists in the New Age movement and the healing arts is subtlydesigned to keep us confined to the physical reality and the physical body, aligned to theastral, whilst at the same time appearing to provide spiritual instruction and nutrition. Justas birds and ducks are grateful and greedy for the scraps of food we throw them to feedon, we too are greedy and grateful to feed on the scraps of ‘junk food’ knowledge thathave been conveniently thrown our way. But just as the birds and ducks will eat even thepoisoned food we throw them, so too at times do we willingly feed upon poisonedknowledge. Some of us have become so conditioned by this illusory ego/intellectconsciousness over time that we will digest any so-called mystical or magical informationthrown our way. Especially if it promises to save us, feed us knowledge and attune us andenlighten us into a greater and higher consciousness. Is this why many people today arespiritually malnourished and have become so conditioned?

Is the foundation of the Cabbala and the New Age Movement with theirrespective externalisation and inversion of truth no more than attempted abduction of ourfree will, our spirituality and, therefore, of the ability we all have of determining who andwhat we truly are? Are we merely looking at a protocol here, which is to create aproblem, produce a reaction and then offer a solution? A problem created by propheciesof doom: the apocalypse is nigh; the Earth's Magnetic Field will disappear: the Polarregions, or the Earth's crust are about to be displaced, with whole continents shifting andSiberia ending up in the Bahamas? Even several-metre-high waves are going to hit ourcoastal resorts, causing widespread flooding covering much of the globe? Inferring weare not worthy and therefore unable to join the 'chosen few' who will be saved, or that wemust be ready to move into the 4th Dimension with Mother Earth or be left behind in whatis being portrayed as a torrid 3rd dimensional world?

In other words, is this merely a protocol to create a fear-based consciousnesswhich will then create a fear-based reaction from people? Self-perpetuating it is too. Thecreated problem is aimed at addressing our fears and so we react to the problem throughour own fears. We are then offered a solution promising 'enlightenment' and a greaterspiritual awareness. Supposedly enabling us to become more worthy and therefore, morelikely to survive these Earth Changes and become one of the chosen few moving into the4th dimension with Mother Earth. Is this a case of merely keeping up with the Jones's, i.e.the emotional fear-based energy that says we will not be left behind? But what we are infact being offered is a false truth and a false path towards spirituality and enlightenmentwith solutions based upon the vibration of nine.

So we move full circle once again. Just as the nine keeps on repeating itselfbecause the energy consciousness of nine, the physical reality which holds thisimbalanced ego-consciousness can only ever be what it is, and that is nine. Unless, ofcourse, it is transcended by the ten - spirit, truth, balance, unconditional love – an energythat creates a purer and more balanced state of consciousness. By inverting andexternalising the truth it becomes increasingly more difficult for us all to find the


ten/spirit within and become able to transcend the nine. Simply because, in doing so, weend up searching in the wrong direction. According to a number of ancient writings weare allegedly the sons of truth - therefore we are symbolically the ten and very able andcapable of transcending this negative consciousness we have surrounded ourselves with.All we need to do is remember, spirituality and truth lie within us, not outside of us.For Priest, Seer, Soothsayer, Prophet, Augur, Bishop - should we now read Melchizedek,Lord Sananda, Council of Nine, We The Nibirians, The Wingmakers, The Sirians and soforth. Same face, same message, different hat and new hairdo. That's all.

It is time for us to take hold of the steering wheel, put our foot on the throttle andtake control of the bus. If we sit back, put our feet up and allow somebody else to do thedriving, we will always end up where somebody else wants to take us. It is up to each andevery one of us to decide where we want to go. If we continue shopping in an illusoryshopping mall we will keep focusing and feeding on the external vibrations one to nineand go nowhere. We will go around in circles just like the goldfish. We will remainwhere we are, locked into the physical reality, just as the nine will always be nine.However, if we decide to go shopping for the ten/spirit in our own inner Shopping Mall,then our journey will truly begin. We will at last begin to see beyond the confinement andrestrictions of the physical plane and all it represents. We can then enjoy exploring thisfantastic world of freedom that exists within each and every one of us. We are then ableto make the changes we are here to make in the first place. Here’s to our journey. Noneed to pack bags - we’re going to leave our excess baggage behind. See you at the busstation.

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